The auricular muscles, which enabled our distant ancestors to move their ears for better hearing, activate when people try to ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

Surrogate measures of insulin resistance, based on the triglyceride-glucose index, can be used to predict the development of osteoarthritis, according to data published in Scientific Reports ...

One class of drugs that is frequently used in a nebulized form is the opioids. The mechanism of action of nebulized opioids is uncertain, but it is thought that the opioids either act on receptors ...

Body composition refers to the distribution of fat, muscle, bone, and other tissues that make up your body. It is often expressed as the percentage of total body weight that consists of fat and/or ...

Muscle is a soft tissue composed of elongated cells (muscle fibres) that produce force and motion through contraction. Involuntary cardiac and smooth muscles are responsible for contraction of the ...

The overall average body fat percentage in the United States is about 39.9% for women and 28.1% for men, so below these amounts would technically be “below average.” However, most people in the United ...

The body contains all the internal organs, body parts, bones and muscles that make up the human anatomy. Your fleshy body has evolved over millions of years, and this is the science changing the way ...